Patna: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will seek confidence vote at the onset of the budget session of the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday.
The ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar on Tuesday issued whip to party legislators, including the dissident group of MLAs led by former chief minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, to vote for the Nitish Kumar government seeking a trust vote in the State Assembly.
Kumar, who replaced Manjhi as Chief Minister on February 20, will seek a vote of confidence soon after the Governor's address to the legislature on the first day of the budget session on Wednesday.
Manjhi had resigned from his post alleging "threat and intimidation" by the rival group of MLAs led by Kumar. Along with a group of loyalists, he launched a political front, Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), to "expose the real face of Kumar."
The party whip has put Manjhi and his loyalists in a fix as defying the whip or even abstaining would invite termination of their membership of the House.
The buzz in the political circles is that the Manjhi group of MLAs, said to be 10 in number, have approached the Opposition BJP to boycott the trust vote so that it will not take place.
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